PJ FLeck is saying it and so is Justin Fuente, Head Coach of Memphis (who also went from first to last). Fuente said it on the same ESPN podcast that HCB was on-focusing on team chemistry and becoming a team. Same tune HCBD has been preaching all year-Coach Diaco said that team finally started becoming a "team" at about the 3/4 mark of the season.
First practice of the year, Diaco told the players to come out in full pads. So of course, some of the players come out in full pads and others didn't. Coach was pissed and told the players who wore the pads had to run (sprints or stairs-I forget) while the other players (who didn't wear pads) had to go back in the locker room to put on their pads on. As stupid as it sounds, it caused a great divide among the players at the start of the season. Makes me wonder how PP ran this team while he was here for those 3 treacherous years.
Anyways, hopefully their all holdings hands and singing Kumbaya now so they can start winning